Social Psychology category: 7378 books
Why People Radicalize
How Unfairness Judgments are Used to Fuel Radical Beliefs, Extremist Behaviors, and Terrorism
Language: English
Release Date: September 3, 2018
In Why People Radicalize, Kees van den Bos argues that if we want to truly understand radicalization and prevent, attenuate, and fight violent extremism and terrorism, we must pay attention to what is driving the radicalization process. This implies that we should systematically analyze how radicalizing...
Ecobehavioral Analysis and Developmental Disabilities
The Twenty-First Century
Language: English
Release Date: December 6, 2012
"Ecobehavioral analysis", the merging of social ecological studies and J.R. Kantor's theory of interbehavioral psychology, was termed just over a decade ago. Since then, innovative trends emerging in the field of developmental disabilities warrant a comprehensive update. Ecobehavioral Analysis...
Principles of Behavior
Seventh Edition
Language: English
Release Date: October 2, 2015
This book serves as a general, liberal-arts introduction to behavior analysis, as well as a first step in becoming a professional behavior analyst at the BA, MA, or the PhD/EdD level. It presents various case studies and examples that help readers to apply principles of behavior to real life.
Misperceptions of the Social World
What We Get Wrong About Sex, Race, Money, and Violence
Language: English
Release Date: January 2, 2018
This volume elucidates some of the very concrete ways in which Americans misperceive the social world and how we are all subject to biases and illusions. As such, it challenges the assumption in much social science theorizing that people are rational actors by exploring how the machinations of cognition,...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The present volume in our series, Human Behavior and Environment, is devoted to a specific topic, continuing the pattern established in the last two volumes. The current theme is behavioral science aspects of trans portation. This topic was chosen to exemplify a problem area of practical import...
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Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
Language: English
Release Date: June 29, 2013
The present volume in the series focuses on homes, residences, and dwellings. Although many fields have had a long-standing interest in different aspects of home environments, the topic has recently come to the forefront in the interdisciplinary environment and behavior field. Researchers and theorists...
by Kelly G. Shaver
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Language: English
Release Date: August 5, 2016
Why do people act the way they do? How do their desires and fears become known to us? When are our opinions of others correct, and when are they likely to be mistaken? These are questions which attribution theory tries to answer. Originally published in 1975, this title provides an informal introduction...
by Luigi Montanino - Pasquale Gerardo Santella
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 14, 2016
Language: Italian
Release Date: July 14, 2016
I social network sono un fenomeno che ha investito la sfera sociale in maniera prepotente.
Nati con lo scopo di aggregare persone, parenti e amici, vicini e lontani, sono diventati oggi un nuovo modo di comunicare e di relazionarsi, condizionando la mente delle vecchie e delle nuove generazioni che...
Intrinsic and Extrinsic Motivation
The Search for Optimal Motivation and Performance
Language: English
Release Date: September 12, 2000
In understanding human behavior, psychologists have long been interested in what motivates specific actions. Debates have pitted extrinsic motivators (e.g. rewards/punishment) against intrinsic motivation in attempting to determine what best motivates individuals. This book provides a summary view...
Lecturas de psicología y política
Crisis política y daño psicológico
Language: Spanish
Release Date: May 17, 2017
La primera edición de este libro fue realizada en 1982, sin pie de imprenta, en Santiago de Chile y fue declarada como publicada en México por un colectivo chileno de trabajo psicosocial, para evitar la censura y represalias. En él se reúnen los trabajos presentados en un seminario convocado en...
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Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
Language: English
Release Date: November 29, 2012
The blush is a ubiquitous yet little understood phenomenon which can be triggered by a number of self-conscious emotions such as shame, embarrassment, shyness, pride and guilt. The field of psychology has seen a recent surge in the research of such emotions, yet blushing remains a relatively neglected...
Connecting with South Africa
Cultural Communication and Understanding
Language: English
Release Date: February 6, 2012
Available electronically in an open-access, full-text edition from the Texas A&M University Libraries' Digital Repository at* http://hdl.handle.net/1969.1/146845.*
Child psychiatrist and psychoanalyst Astrid Berg states in her introduction that “South Africa is a microcosm.” It is...
Social Intelligence
The New Science of Human Relationships
Language: English
Release Date: September 26, 2006
Emotional Intelligence was an international phenomenon, appearing on the New York Times bestseller list for over a year and selling more than five million copies worldwide. Now, once again, Daniel Goleman has written a groundbreaking synthesis of the latest findings in biology and brain science, revealing...
No Sense of Place
The Impact of Electronic Media on Social Behavior
Language: English
Release Date: December 11, 1986
How have changes in media affected our everyday experience, behavior, and sense of identity? Such questions have generated endless arguments and speculations, but no thinker has addressed the issue with such force and originality as Joshua Meyrowitz in No Sense of Place. Advancing a daring and sophisticated...